PLUMED-GUI is an interactive environment to develop and test complex PLUMED scripts within the Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) environment. Computational biophysicists can take advantage of both PLUMED’s rich syntax to define collective variables (CVs) and VMD’s chemically-aware atom selection language, while working within a natural point-and-click interface. Pre-defined templates and syntax m...

The authors argue that travel forecasting models should be dynamic and disaggregate in their representation of demand, supply, and supply-demand interactions, and propose a framework for such models. The proposed framework consists of disaggregate activity-based representation of travel choices of individual motorists on the demand side integrated with disaggregate dynamic modeling of network p...

Model intercomparison of indirect aerosol effects J. E. Penner, J. Quaas, T. Storelvmo, T. Takemura, O. Boucher, H. Guo, A. Kirkevåg, J. E. Kristjánsson, and Ø. Seland University of Michigan, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, USA Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, 4, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France University of Oslo, De...

The storage characteristics of uncooked Ogi-baba (Sorghum based cereal breakfast) after drying for some time at an elevated temperature of 130oC was the main objective of this experimental work. The experiment also aimed at checking the influence of accelerated drying on the quality and storage life span of the product. The performance was accessed using some organoleptic (odour, colour and fun...

1'~ experimental investigation of the wake behind a Meteor 4 EL?XW&Z has beon carried out, and theory used wherever possible to confirm a& ater.d the results &tamed. Xea~urements ehw that for the conditions oovered in these tests, the jet velocity has fallen to a negligible value by about 200-300 ft behinil the jet exrt. The act muld oe tiqected to persist Longest under take-o~cf conditims alth...

side, the spectra are non-transferred. On the right-hand side, the Mars spectra have been transferred to more closely match the lab spectra. CALIBRATION TRANSFER OF LIBS SPECTRA TO CORRECT FOR MARS-EARTH LAB DIFFERENCES. T. Boucher, M.D. Dyar, C. Carey, S. Giguere, S. Mahadevan, S. Clegg, R. Anderson, and R. Wiens, University of Massachusetts, 140 Governors Dr. Amherst, MA 01003, USA (boucher@c...

In the present work the Black Sea wave climate is assessed using a total of 38 years of data (1979–2016). As a first step, the long-term variations of the main wave parameters were evaluated using data provided by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Based on these values, the nearshore and offshore conditions from the Black Sea were evaluated. Moreover, the Sea of Az...

The effects of starvation and subsequent re-feeding on compensatory growth performance, blood serum metabolites and IGF-ImRNA expression in liver and muscle were investigated in juvenile Persian sturgeon. Growth indices including body weight, SGR, CF, and HSI significantly decreased after starvation. However, after re-feeding sturgeons that were starved for 1 week reached the same weight as the...

The effects of starvation and subsequent re-feeding on compensatory growth performance, blood serum metabolites and IGF-ImRNA expression in liver and muscle were investigated in juvenile Persian sturgeon. Growth indices including body weight, SGR, CF, and HSI significantly decreased after starvation. However, after re-feeding sturgeons that were starved for 1 week reached the same weight as the...

In order to handle massively parallel systems and make them usable, an adaptive, application-oriented operating system is required. The application-orientedness is represented by the family concept of parallel operating systems. Incremental loading of operating system services supports the family character by automatically extending the system's active object structure when it is necessary. Thi...